To survive, complex organizations must innovate. This book explores the factors linking well-being and innovation, and is a starting point for the business world to use work-life balance as a strategic investment to stimulate creativity and face a constantly evolving market.
British Innovators in Computing
This volume discusses British electronics and defence firms that designed their own computer systems. For each vendor, from Ferranti to STC, it examines their unique architectures and innovations before they disappeared through mergers to form ICL, whose legacy survives today.
Pyrometers are calibrated for blackbodies (BB), but real objects radiate differently, causing measurement errors. This book proposes original correction methods that account for an object’s radiation spectrum and its temperature dependence to increase the accuracy of pyrometry.
Morphological Taxonomy of Angiosperms – Textbook of Flowering Plant Families
This book describes the morphological characters of all 419 modern angiosperm families and over 900 morphological groups. Illustrated with original photos for identification, it is an essential guide for taxonomists, evolutionary biologists, conservationists, and students.
Innovation is deeply human. This book explores its often-overlooked psychological dimension, providing a groundbreaking framework that integrates psychology into the study of creativity, motivation, and risk-taking to redefine how we understand and foster new ideas.
A comprehensive guide for teachers, parents, and anyone interested in children’s literature. Combining theory with practice, it offers practical strategies to inspire reading and creative writing. Includes supplementary audio of nursery rhymes, poems, and fables.
The Making of a Jungian Analyst
In the crucible of training analysis, a woman confronts her own shadows to become a Jungian analyst. Guided by a tough supervising analyst—a Holocaust survivor—and a flood of dreams, she discovers the guiding force of the Self in the second half of life.
In an age of relativism and uncertainty, how can sociology move forward? This book charts a new path by critically re-examining Durkheim and Giddens. It outlines new approaches to social processes, time, and predicting the future, transforming contemporary sociological thought.
Near-death experiences, mystical states, and lucid dreaming have long been dismissed as dysfunctional phenomena. This book presents a transdisciplinary scientific approach, revealing them as meaningful states with potential for healing, Self-knowledge, and spiritual development.
Despite their different economic models, the middle classes in the US and South Korea face the same crisis: labor market instability and widening inequality. This book examines the causes, the consequences for family and education, and presents policy ideas for revitalization.
Protecting Adolescent Girls with HIV in Malawi
This book examines the socio-cultural and structural barriers to contraception for adolescent girls living with HIV in Malawi. It highlights their compounded health risks and advocates for improved policies and programs to enhance their health outcomes and well-being.
In business, “me” and “the people” are not the same, but they should be. This book explains the cause for this difference and shows you how to measure and bridge the distance between them. Do not just describe it. Take action. Actually embrace it and do it.
African Immigrant Children in the United States
African immigrant children and their families navigate forging new identities in a foreign land while upholding their cultures. Their journeys, marked by challenges and triumphs, highlight the universal struggle of belonging and show how they become bridges between cultures.
Digital Business Ecosystems in the Service Industry
This guide explores the transformative potential of Digital Business Ecosystems (DBEs) for the service industry. Combining theory with case studies from leaders like Amazon and Netflix, it offers actionable insights to reshape business models and achieve sustainable growth.
What is our place in the universe? This book offers a journey through our evolving understanding of the cosmos, from ancient myths to modern physics. It explains quantum physics and relativity without mathematical baggage, revealing that our world is ultimately unpredictable.
Over the past century, Americans transformed from citizens to consumers, their identities defined by how they spent money. This history argues that while unsustainable, consumer culture has consistently served as a principal source of meaning and purpose in people’s lives.
The Social-Structural Determinants of Health
An understanding of the human body and mind is incomplete without examining the social environment. Social forces create conditions that can either strengthen or undermine the wellbeing of individuals, groups, and entire communities—the social-structural determinants of health.
The Legend, Lore and Spirit of the Water Horse
This book explores the legends of the water horse in mythology, folklore, and art. It delves into the romance and mystery of water as a sacred, cleansing element and also as an untamed, disruptive force. How are these manifestations linked to the human psyche?
A readable guide to health as we age, easily understood by all. Written in an appealing, informal manner with entertaining stories and useful philosophical notes, it offers a helpful, holistic perspective. This encouraging book has value for all of us, elderly or not.
Exploring the Mycology and Parasitology of Plant Life
This book unravels the fascinating, unseen world of plant life—a vibrant community of cooperation, competition, and survival. Explore the supportive fungal networks that help plants thrive and the parasites that wage biochemical warfare to drain resources from their victims.
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